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To: Alan Markoff who wrote (10123)	12/20/1997 5:49:00 PM
From: Sidney Reilly	Respond to of 39621

Hi Nancy, What I meant was this. When Jesus died on the cross the curtain in the Temple that seperated the Holy of Holies from the outer Temple was ripped by God from top to bottom. This was symbolic because now through Jesus's blood we could all enter the Holy of Holies, or literally into the presence of God and the rituals of the Temple, priests, mosaic law were now obsolete. The Temple being destroyed physically later on was not important really because the New Covenant was alreay established. Jesus said He came to fulfill not abolish the law which he did. But didn't he in fulfilling the law make it obsolete? We don't live under the law but under grace. So how do we think of the law? Fulfilled but of no use to us? By the law of the Spirit we are freed from the law of the flesh. I look at the law as a guideline that God used to educate His chosen people in many ways. But I don't see any connection with it for Christians. It has no power over us any longer. Is that explained better? Bob

To: Alan Markoff who wrote (10123)	12/20/1997 6:28:00 PM
From: Robert E. Hall	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 39621

Greetings Nancy, with due respect to you as you say you search for truth, Romans 11, must be read with the context of the previous chapters, namely chapters 9 and 10 to understand what the Holy Spirit is telling us through the Apostle Paul. In essence Paul states to his countrymen (Jews), that under the New Covenant that blossomed out of the death of the Old Covenant, no longer was natural birth in a Jewish family a condition that made a person the people of God. God in His promise to Abraham ( Gen 12:1-3 ), has fullfilled this promise through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and now all nations of the earth have the salvation of God available to them. Romans 11:23, states that they ( Jews ) , if they do not continue in thier unbelief, God is able to graft them in to the cultivated olive tree. However, their grafting in is only possible by the way fore-ordained by Almighty God, and that is by believing that Jesus is the Christ, the One foretold by the prophets. Romans 11:26 states that in this manner both Jew and Gentile can be reconciled to God. That way is through the Lord Jesus Christ alone. Any other way, religion or method to attempt to reconcile oneself with Almighty God is anti-christ by biblical definition . Please do dot misconstrue this response as an attack against you or any nation in general, but as a sincere desire to see the Word of God honoured and loved. Robert